ACT: Canberra Times fronters

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-1999
ACT: Canberra Times fronters

CANBERRA, Aug 17 AAP - The main stories in today's Canberra Times:

PAGE 1: Searchers resort to experimental thermal-imaging technology in a desperate bid to
find missing snowboarders (Rod McGuirk, Perisher); Former High Court Chief Justice Sir Gerard
Brennan lends support to republican cause (local).

PAGE 2: Defence Department to rethink the 1994 White Paper which warned of a long term
decline in US power and China's rapid rise (local).

PAGE 3: Olympic marching band saga finally resolved with SOCOG agreeing to pay additional
$1 million to welcome foreign musicians back into the ceremony (Sydney).

INTERNATIONAL: Chairman of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party reportedly says the party may
review its nomination of President BJ Habibie for a new term if possible allies reject him
(Jakarta, AAP, AFP).

FINANCE: GIO Australia Holdings Ltd says it is exiting its reinsurance business after
confirming the division would contribute the bulk of a worse-than-expected full-year loss (Jim
Hanna, Sydney); Australian business calls for final say on business tax reforms when the
federal government unveils the long-awaited Ralph report (Liz Rudall).

SPORT: Tiger Woods had to overcome distasteful gallery comments as well as new millenium
rival Sergio Garcia to win the US PGA Championship (Andrew Both, Chicago, Illinois).

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